DINING ROOM

The dining room of Casa Cuseni is the only surviving interior in the world designed by Sir Frank Brangwyn, British Royal Academician. The interior was realised in Taormina in 1910 by the renowned Sir Frank Brangwyn, but hidden for over a hundred years because in the Art Nouveau decoration of the murals, faced a topic that is still controversial and debated today: homogeneity.

The Dining Room Murals were realised in Taormina, a safe place protected by the Labouchere Amendment, an 1885 law that had convicted the poet Oscar Wilde in 1895. Exactly a century after its creation, the dining room of Casa Cuseni has finally opened and its history narrated to the public. The room reflects John Ruskin’s and William Morris’ political and artistic thought, the pre-Raphaelite painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne Jones, the architectural design of Josef Hoffmann, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Philip Webb, all condensed in the magical brush of Sir Frank Brangwyn, Louis Comfort Tiffany’s first decorator.

In 2019, this interior has been recognised as the world’s best example of the Arts and Crafts Movement outside Britain and a Place of Identity and Memory of the Sicilian Region.